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by mfincham 13y ago
It's worth noting that if you want to fully leverage the scalability of S3, using your domain registrar's HTTP 302 service (using a "URL Redirect" feature at your domain registrar) is likely a bad idea. ismytwitterpasswordsecure.com resolve
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by mfincham 14y ago
Yarssr - Yet Another RSS Reader http://yarssr.sourceforge.net/ Simple, to the point, nice UI.
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by mfincham 14y ago
Looks plausible, thanks!
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by mfincham 14y ago
So where do I buy a chinese knockoff version of this that I can run Debian on? It's a very exciting hardware notion, and I'd love to hack around with some software on it.
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by mfincham 14y ago
Here's a usability enhancement: make sure you're overriding the behaviour of an <a> element which would already cause the page to scroll back up, e.g. a link to a named anchor at the top of the page or to the ID of the <html&#62
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by mfincham 14y ago
Please allow the user to disable sending / viewing HTML mail. This is the number one bug with Apple's built in iOS mail client, imo. It drives me nuts.
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by mfincham 14y ago
Yeah I just noticed. When I wrote this I lived a substantial distance from the ocean, however now running it against my current address (which is across the road from a marina) it advises I ought to take a ferry sometimes. Not sure what I c
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by mfincham 14y ago
You're right, "utter failure" might be taking things too far. "Consider the target audience of this. It'll be more technically inclined people. It's again safe to assume these people will mostly have JS enabled." I disagree with that sentim
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by mfincham 14y ago
I wrote this random walk generator a while ago: http://hotplate.co.nz/files/walk/ I should publish the code properly at some point, but it's all client side and not very complex, so if anyone wants to run their own local copy that is fine
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by mfincham 14y ago
Loads to a blank white page with JavaScript disabled. Utter failure.
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by mfincham 14y ago
Is this in some way different to Apple's normal open source offerings? By which I mean, is there something new or interesting hidden on this page that I'm missing? :)
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by mfincham 14y ago
"Further, the image file as well as its metadata would be backed up to your own little piece on the cloud" Doesn't seem like much of a backup to me... I'd hope at the very least that even if there isn't a local storage option they would bui
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by mfincham 14y ago
Boing Boing at least have fixed this. Even though the page still scrolls forever, at the bottom of each "segment" the "Older Entries" link no longer disappears when the additional content loads, allowing for optional pagination :)
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by mfincham 14y ago
Much bigger sin: Boing Boing style "endlessly load more content with Javascript" nonsense. If you're browsing on an (arguably flawed in its implementation) iOS device where page state gets unexpectedly dumped all the time (e.g, tab switchin
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by mfincham 14y ago
Eleven good reasons: mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "Subject:" < ios6.eml Subject: APPLE-SA-2012-09-19-1 iOS 6 mfincham@desktop:~/Desktop$ grep "code execution" < ios6.eml | wc -l 11 Those bugs will never be fixed for
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by mfincham 14y ago
Here's an idea: The moment the device is no longer supported, unlock the bootloader. If you really felt philanthropic, release some docs on the hardware interfaces. This way Linux / *BSD / Haiku / whatever could be ported and extend the usa
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by mfincham 14y ago
"Wrong: use Assembler Language." I'd be interested to see more research on this. I would hope that modern compilers can generate better optimised code than hand assembly for most cases by now. Does anyone have any pointers to research on th
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by mfincham 14y ago
Submitter says it was removed on a Reddit technicality. http://www.reddit.com/user/rct096 "canipaybycheck Your post was removed because you did not ask a question in the title, which is the first rule in the sidebar. I hope that helps, ha
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by mfincham 14y ago
Point #5 (Mac Succumbs To Trojan Flashback) at least, is rather badly written. I didn't bother to read the others.
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by mfincham 15y ago
Perhaps I should edit the article to explain this. I used a VISA Debit card to pay for the domain so while I do have the ability to charge back erroneous transactions the money does also just come straight out of my VISA Debit account, for
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by mfincham 15y ago
All I can think of is that I saw the Network Solutions name, recognised it as a big brand and having not dealt with them directly before decided they can't possibly be that bad... right... right? :/
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How a registrar managed to annoy me more than GoDaddy(finch.am)
3 points by mfincham 15y ago|5 comments
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by mfincham 15y ago
Most of the "root servers" are big anycast clusters. L root has at least 50 locations worldwide...
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by mfincham 15y ago
The top-voted answer is wrong. If there's no MX record, mail servers will attempt deliver to the A record. example.com's servers don't listen on port 25, so the mail server won't establish a TCP connection and won't even begin delivery. I t